Drawing Needles
Indeed, I am the needle of the world's utmost forsaken compass.
Bewilderingly spinning round, I pine dead North through the cold clutches of the bottomless sea.
Detached, disconnected, removed - the magnetic forces howling all home falls deaf mine on ear.
Broken, useless, poison - I pray only thy shipmaster plunges me into the belly of the bastard, Ishmael's vein, so I may drown beneath the swampy decay of squandered time.
I know not innocence.
Nor am I a victim.
Just a sleepwalker in the land of the dead.
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Written on March 12, 2024
Submitted by JJJJTTTT on March 22, 2024
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Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 3 |
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